25 episodes
The Shakespeare Birthday Party Danny and Grace Fitzpatrick
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- Arts
In this podcast we will read and discuss all of William Shakespeare’s plays over the course of a year, starting and ending on the Bard’s birthday. Together we’ll explore the big questions the plays put on the table and the poetry that makes those questions so human. Along the way we’ll be joined by poets, scholars, playwrights, and actors who can help us celebrate the poet whose influence continues to resound loudest over the Western world. Happy birthday, Shakespeare!
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King Lear
In which Grace and Danny discuss prodigal fathers, Lady Fortune, and total, abject misery.
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The Comedy of Errors
In which Grace and Danny talk marriage, twins, and sacramental grace.
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Richard II
In which Grace and Danny discuss divine right of kings, betrayal, and the crusades.
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Measure for Measure
In which Grace and Danny discuss the Divine Comedy and Blackadder’s Russian codpiece—always terrifies the clergy, as Enid—I mean, Edmund—says!
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All’s Well That Ends Well
In which Grace and Danny discuss Cole Porter, Newland Archer (The Age of Innocence) [Edith Wharton], and Jeeves and Wooster. As one does.